Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe
…of their slaves in 1832. After her father's death from cholera she came to Barrie, Upper Canada, with her mother in 1854 to live with her brother, Hewitt Bernard (who left in 1851 after giving up the family plantation), a lawyer and private secretary to political leader John A. Macdonald. It was through him that…